Almost three out of every four Louisiana residents oppose removing Confederate monuments and symbols from public space, according to a poll taken by LSU in February. Only 20 percent of people surveyed favored Confederate monument removal.

New Orleans city government has been trying to take monuments down from local public property for the better part of the year, in spite of several roadblocks being thrown up to their removal.

Currently, a court has stopped the city from removing the monuments until litigation over the matter is resolved. On a more practical level, New Orleans hasn't been able to find a contractor to take down the monuments, because potential bidders have been threatened and intimidated.

But LSU's survey shows 73 percent of Louisiana resident oppose monuments being removed. The scales are even more tilted among the white community. Eighty-eight percent of white people surveyed oppose Confederate monument removal. Just eight percent of white people polled supported taking them down.

The LSU survey also found that more African Americans opposed monument removal, 47 percent, than supported it, 40 percent. The margin of error for the whole poll is 3.1 percentage points.

LSU also asked people how they felt about the state issuing license plates with the Confederate flag on them. The results were much more mixed. About 49 percent of people polled supported the state issuing Confederate flag license plates, and 44 percent were opposed to it.

In the African American community, far more people were opposed to Confederate flag license plates (66 percent) than supported them (26 percent). But white people polled were flipped on that issue. Sixty-one percent of white people supported Confederate flag license plates and just 33 percent opposed them.

The LSU poll also showed that most people don't have a rosy view of race relations in the state. Nearly half of people polled think race relations is about the same in Louisiana as they have been. About a third of people surveyed think race relations are getting worse. Just 16 percent thing race relations are getting better, according to the survey.